Northampton football coach Jeff Brosky lets his players vote for
team captains but reserves the final say for his coaching staff.

Most of the time the kids pick
players the coaches would approve of anyway.

“They know who the leaders are,”
he said.

Brosky has another leadership
component that the players alone control.

For the second straight year, he
tasked the Konkrete Kids with choosing a leadership council in voting separate
from the selection of team captains. Two players each from the senior, junior
and sophomore classes were picked as liaisons between the players and the
coaching staff.

Brosky (right, talking to his players after a recent practice), said the leadership
council is an idea he borrowed from the college game.

“It’s something I incorporated
last year for the first time, because I had heard that there was not much
communication between the players and the coaching staff,” Brosky said. “I
think it’s a great way to improve that. Whenever there’s problems here or
there, it can be relayed through the kids. I want them to feel comfortable
coming to me. That’s the whole premise of the leadership council.

“Plus, it gives them some type of
status among the kids that I think they strive for.”

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TOM HOUSENICK watches every move Lehigh’s C.J. McCollum makes on the court, laughs at every joke by Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon and watches all the Divisions II and III coaches and players do it for the love of the game. Basketball makes the cold weather season go by fast. Already can’t wait for late February and early March when each possession could result in a season ending or continuing on.

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